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New NVIDIA Workstation - almost one Petaflop

GreymomGreymom Posts: 1,139
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It has been about 10 years since the first Petaflop (1000 trillion floating-point operations per second) computer.....

The new Nvidia DGX-1 AI workstation is rated just a tad under one petaflop (960 TF). There is a model for $129,000. "To achieve equivalent rendering performance of a DGX Station, content creators would need access to a render farm with more than 150 servers that require some 200 kilowatts of power, compared with 1.5 kilowatts for a DGX Station. The cost for purchasing and operating that render farm would reach $4 million over three years compared with less than $75,000 for a DGX Station."

It is one unit that sits on a desktop. Wow.

It is the same size as my dual-xeon workstation (built from surplus parts), and pulls only 2-3 times the power, but is about 800 times faster than it is in CPU mode.   However, it costs about the same as my house........

 

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  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    Gotta win the lootery (and no that is not a misspelling)

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,616

    The big feature for rendering is that the new Tesla GPU cards can now talk to each other!

    Put in 4 of the 16GB models and their memory is added together... 64GB! yes

  • GreymomGreymom Posts: 1,139
    prixat said:

    The big feature for rendering is that the new Tesla GPU cards can now talk to each other!

    Put in 4 of the 16GB models and their memory is added together... 64GB! yes

    Wow!  That is a great feature!   Still way too pricey for me, though.  Maybe a single 1080 GTX with 16 GB or greater?  : )

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    They need to bring that down to 500 watts and $500 but I reckon that's anoth 5 year or 10 years down the road.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857

    ...hmm Megabucks draw tonight here. 5.4$ million, whcih if I took the "cash out" option instead of annuity payments would be 2.7$ million - less taxes - about 1.8$ million.  Yeah I could swing it on that. 

  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,141
    nonesuch00 said:

    They need to bring that down to 500 watts and $500 but I reckon that's anoth 5 year or 10 years down the road.

    You need at least a 1500W PSU to run 4 GTX 1080s, so I think the power consumption is about right.  That certainly costs less than $129,000.

     

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729
    edited August 2017
    Ryzan said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    They need to bring that down to 500 watts and $500 but I reckon that's anoth 5 year or 10 years down the road.

    You need at least a 1500W PSU to run 4 GTX 1080s, so I think the power consumption is about right.  That certainly costs less than $129,000.

     

    In 5 years they won't be using 4 GTX 1080s but some marvelously cheap and power sipping technology. What? I have no ideal. laugh Or I can hope.

    Post edited by nonesuch00 on
  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    nonesuch00 said:
    Ryzan said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    They need to bring that down to 500 watts and $500 but I reckon that's anoth 5 year or 10 years down the road.

    You need at least a 1500W PSU to run 4 GTX 1080s, so I think the power consumption is about right.  That certainly costs less than $129,000.

     

    In 5 years they won't be using 4 GTX 1080s but some marvelously cheap and power sipping technology. What? I have no ideal. laugh Or I can hope.

    It'll be prehistoric woodpeckers chained together in parallel.  They'll talk and they'll cop an attitude everytime you ask them to render something.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    Ryzan said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    They need to bring that down to 500 watts and $500 but I reckon that's anoth 5 year or 10 years down the road.

    You need at least a 1500W PSU to run 4 GTX 1080s, so I think the power consumption is about right.  That certainly costs less than $129,000.

     

    In 5 years they won't be using 4 GTX 1080s but some marvelously cheap and power sipping technology. What? I have no ideal. laugh Or I can hope.

    It'll be prehistoric woodpeckers chained together in parallel.  They'll talk and they'll cop an attitude everytime you ask them to render something.

    So it'll be just like work.

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,310

    I think IBM 5nm chips looks more interesting.

     

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    Cool, so maybe get a 3D workstation that can do all that using only 200 watts and $500.

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